Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-11-16
SUNDRIES.

TuE greatest pork packer in Chicago has
| a physician IN his employ by the year who
receives from his one patient ten thousand
dollars 4 year
| PORTABLE electric lamps are the latest
provision for safety in illuminating mines.
| These arc Convenient and cheap and well
adapted for underground use, as they pro-
| ducc no smoke nor unpleasant smell, and
lessen the danger of lire-damp.
The first elephant on exhibition in New
| England. and said to have been the first in
the United States, was killed at Alfred, Me-,
in the year 1877, about one mile west of the
village. in piece of woods near the Round
Pond, so-caued. on the old park road lead-
ing TO Dover, y. Ii. A man by the name of
| Davis had an altercation with the proprietor
Of the menagerie the day previous, while on
exhibition at Alfred, and sought revenge by
| shooting the elephant.
TIM snake sheds its skin by rubbing
against sapling or other hard surface un-
| til tho delicate skin about the mouth is
| parted and turned back a few inches when
the snake seeks a narrow place to fit the
body. and thus held. the skin stays, while
the reptile crawls ''out of its hide" The
cuticle is turned ''inside out'' when found
Snakes are believed to be blind Just before
1 shedding; at least, the eyes are as thorough
! ~ tbNCACA " AllC OAN SIKH dS dflN OIlef part
Of the body.
THEsinteresting statement is made in the
last municipal reports of the corporation OF
/ Chelsea, near London, that, contrary TO
what has generally been assumed in the re-
! latlons of occupations and health, the sewer
men OF that place show marvellous health
and vitality. notwithstanding they spend
! seven hours daily in the sewers, often in
crampcd 1p positions, dealing with offensive
| and dangerous matter One Of the sewer
1 mon, who IS now pensioned of, is eighty
six years old, and was "A sewernan for more
than tweng-cight years: another, who is
| yet at work, is seventy-four, and has fol-
/ lowed the occupation lor more than thirty
years.
Az Interesting account Of the manner in
which Indians poison their arrows, is here
| given by an old Indian: First we take a
a eloated yellow rattlesnake in August,
| when be Is most poisonous and tie him with
, forked stick to stake; then we tease
MIN until he Is IN a great rage This is done
by passing a switch over his BODY from his
head 70 his tell. When he thresbes the
! ground with his BODY and his eyes grow
bright and sparkle IKE diamonds we xiii a
deer, antelope, or some other small animal
and, teas1ng out the liver, throw il 10 the
snake wlile It IS warm and the blood is still
coursing tkl ough it, The reptile will strike
II sGain and again, and pretty soon it will
turn black Tie fver is let lie for about an
honr, rhen i VIII Be Jet black and emit a
sour 81 -i.- Arrows are then brought and
Ter 're- heads pushed into the liver up TO
i.ie shat lliev are left sticking there for
aeout an Fopr and a half when they are
withdrawn 49, driesl in the sun. A tbin.
| glisteE,nG yellow scum adheres to the ar
row, ant ii Ii s. iqleh as touches raw flesh
Il IS certain 70 poison i 20 death"
AzEw giass ractory is to be built at Fcs-
toIia. ..
HoEs u thirteen arc working in the Fail
RIVER iaass mills Tor - cents a day.
trIE sfone-cptgers between Detroit and
Omaha propose - fern National assembly.
TIsr cooks and washer1vonen Of Mechan.
ie5si.se, Pa, hasve organized Local Assem-
biv 10. ie25S
tbs New York organized hat statesmen
are rapartilE - court al storekeepers who
sen on Sunday.
Tnl first district assembly formed in En-
giara Il numbered IS. II has nine local
assemblies "A good working order.
TIE Plumbers and steanl-fitters all over
the West are forming National union.
The membership vii be about 1900